Women Unscripted

Shannon's coaching lesson this week is teaching the game using the “Whole, Part, Whole” method. We present the game as a whole, break it down into pieces to teach, and then put it all together as a whole again for competition. We do that over and over again, week by week teaching “pieces” within the game. Shannon explains that individual work must be done specific to every position: FW, DEF, G and...

Season 1 Episode 8 of the WeCOACH Podcast takes a turn with national champion head softball coach, Lonni Alameda. Listen in as Lonni candidly gives us an inside look at the championship program she has built at Florida State and how she continues to sustain such a high-level of success with her philosophy, core values and make the game FUN. This episode shows why Coach Alameda has become one of th...

As coaches we are role models, and all of our communication needs to be honest, and this should eventually lead to trust and respect. Somewhere between 85-90% of our feedback needs to be honest/positive, depending on the day, the situation and the phase of development you are in. It is also very important to give honest corrective feedback when mistakes are made and/or improvement is required. It’...

This month on Fair Play, Windsurfing legend Barbara Kendall and Seventh Degree Blackbelt Ava Strong talk success, Football Ferns’ Sarah Gregorious gives us her take on the U17s and their chances at the Halbergs, and co-host sports psychologist Karen Nimmo discusses Imposter’s Syndrome, Tall Poppy Syndrome and the difference between arrogance and drive. For show notes and related links for this epi...

Poppy Cleall shares her insights into being a member of the England team as they prepare for the 2019 Six Nations Tournament as she and Bex consider the teams they face next month.  We hear which players to look out for and what England expects from each of the teams which will make this a highly competitive competition. And with Poppy's team, Saracen's Women, on a winning streak in the Tyrell's P...

On this week's episode Shannon Miller focuses on authentic leadership while being a successful coach, and her guest is legendary softball coach Carol Hutchins who is in her 35th season at the helm of the University of Michigan softball program. Coach Hutchins is the winningest coach in NCAA softball history and they compare notes as two prominent coaches in their very different sports. Shannon's d...

On this month’s episode of The Sailing Show, Abby Ehler chats to two guests who have recently competed in the iconic Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.  First up Abby chats to sailing legend Dee Caffari, who competed with Ocean Respect Racing skipped by Australia’s Stacey Jackson.  Abby’s second guest is young, up and coming sailor Rosalin Kuiper, who chats about her experience sailing a 100ft max...

The WeCOACH Podcast takes on a new sport as executive director and host Megan Kahn talks with Acrobatics & Tumbling 8-time National Champion Felecia Mulkey. Felecia oozes passion for the sport and gives us an in-depth look and explains its phenomenal growth at the collegiate level, and how female student-athletes and coaches are benefitting from the recent interest. Listen in as Felecia sheds ligh...

Ireland's Isabel Joyce retired from international cricket at the end of last season and has already been signed up as  the Director of Coaching at Clontarf Cricket Club in Dublin where she will have overall responsibility for all the teams. Cricket is in his genes and with all four siblings including her twin sister Cecilia, and her husband John Anderson playing the game there was never any doubt...

Shannon Miller's guest this week is a strong and successful woman - Nancy Hogshead-Makar.  Nancy is an Olympic champion, Civil Rights Lawyer and runs Champion Women. Champion Women addresses standard Title IX compliance, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse, LGBT, employment and pregnancy discrimination.  Nancy has been working on sexual abuse in the Olympic movement for nine years now, but it reall...

Chris Stafford hosts Transcending Sport the show that features stories of women who transcend sport from entrepreneurs to charities, organizations to media initiatives, coaching and commerce.  Her guest is Molly Grisham who is based in the mid west where she grew up and whose career as a soccer player turned coach led her to redefine her purpose and establish her own business there.  Molly now foc...

Shannon Miller's first guest of 2019 is NCAA Rugby Coach Becky Carlson who is one of those women on the front lines, fighting for women, fighting for female coaches, and doing her best to create a better reality for all of us. Becky has 12 years experience as an NCAA Rugby coach, winning three consecutive national championships, and was a Division I dual sport athlete herself. Becky is a champion...

U.S. Event rider Elisa Wallace has competed at the top level of the sport for some years having grown up in the sport and she's probably best known for her partnership with Simply Priceless with whom she was named as alternate for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. While she enjoys retraining off the track Thoroughbreds, she has become know for saving the American Mustang and developing their potential i...

The WeCOACH Podcast challenges your communication skills when WeCOACH executive director and host Megan Kahn goes one-on-one with The Coaches Coach, Betsy Butterick. Betsy takes us behind the scenes having been mentored by two of the greatest minds and coaches in the game of basketball, Tara and Heidi Van Derveer and the lessons learned along the way that apply to life. Tune in as Betsy shares her...

Poppy Cleall welcomes sports journalist and co-presenter of The Women’s Rugby Show Bex Chaplin as her co-host as we partner with The Women’s Rugby Show to extend our coverage of the sport. They kick off the show with a few predictions for the Tyrell Premiership and take a look at the Six Nations, how the fixtures are lining up and what this may look like as they anticipate the series coming up nex...

This week WeCOACH Podcast welcomes life coach extraordinaire, Carlette Patterson. Founder of Patterson Sports Ventures and Sports Philanthropy League (SPL), Carlette oozes winning strategies for life. Host and WeCOACH executive director Megan Kahn leans in as Carlette offers insight on living a life in 3D — personally, professionally and philanthropically — and how to have more “10 moments” in you...

On the December episode of Fair Play: Zoë George and guest co-host sports journalist Suzanne McFadden delve into new research about coverage of women in sport with sport academic Kylie Thompson, they also take a look at the highlights and lowlights of 2018 in women's sport, and Zoe takes a field trip to get a glimpse of fashion in cricket at the New Zealand Cricket Museum and gives an update (of c...

Shannon's gift to you this holiday season is all about the gift of scoring and of excellence. How do we nail that goal and become consistent as a player?  Shannon encourages you to take pride in having the most powerful offense possible. This approach makes it more enjoyable for the players to play, creates more scoring chances, which makes the game more entertaining and fun, and obviously scoring...

Being good enough to represent your country in one sport is a sensational achievement; but imagine being an elite athlete for two sports. Australia have had a number of female cross code athletes of late including best and fairest Erin Phillips from basketball and AFLW, soccer and cricket superstar Ellyse Perry and let us not forgot tennis and cricket talent Ash Barty. One hockey player looking to...

Welcome back to a new season of The Horse Show and we kick off with Team US show jumper Lucy Davis who made a name for herself with Barron, a horse of a lifetime, who took her to a team bronze medal at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in France and then a team silver medal the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. As well the pair have been on Nations Cup teams and competed in three World Cup Finals and they...

On this week's episode of Hockey Talk, Coach Shannon Miller talks us through the known and unknown aspects of coaching, the challenges of balancing the personalities and bringing out the best of available talent. Our coaches and our parents pushed many of us growing up and playing sports - we weren’t allowed to float through the comfort zone receiving coddling and bouquets of flowers for complimen...

On episode 4 of the WeCOACH Podcast  Megan Kahn welcomes one of the greatest coaches and administrators in the game of volleyball, Dr. Cecile Reynaud to talk with her about what her upcoming American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductions means, her most rewarding coaching moments and what it was really like coaching volleyball student-athlete and supermodel, Gabby Reece. Listen in...

Rachel Bower is a former National Champion and England representative. After ten years of competing she turned her hand to coaching and has quickly worked her way up to become and England Support Coach while still volunteering with Earlsfield Amateur Boxing Club and the Metropolitan Police Boxing Team.  Rachel’s fighting highlights are winning the National Championships at the Echo Arena in Liverp...

On this week's episode Shannon's guest is hockey legend Jayna Hefford who has recently been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and appointed Commissioner of the Canadian Women's Hockey league (CWHL). They discuss her vision for the future of the sport in Canada and the role and responsibility of the position at an important time in the women's game.  Shannon's topic this week is Power, Responsi...

WeCOACH executive director and host, Megan Kahn, sits down with Claire Lessinger, director of special events for the Tampa Bay Sports Commission. Their dynamic conversation spans Claire’s playing career at the University of Florida (appearances in 3 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Final Fours and 5 SEC titles), what it was like to play for legendary Coach Mary Wise, taking over and rebuilding a program in...